`Grabbing Hold`

January 30, 1989|By Suzanne Brenner.

GURNEE — The Missouri anti-abortion forces have connived and calculated to challenge the Roe v. Wade decision before a Supreme Court deemed to be politically weighted in its favor. This careful timing is itself a convincing argument for keeping the issue of abortion out of government.

There can be no real resolution in a politically motivated court. Just as issues of religion cannot be argued or resolved in government, the intensely personal, many-shades-of-gray (depending on your personal beliefs, experience, circumstance, strengths) issue of abortion should be decided by the individual.

The conservatives scream when the government dares to reach into their pockets for taxes, but on this issue, which reaches into the very depths of our bodies, they encourage the government, with its known character of dealmaking and politicking, to grab hold. It is an appalling concept.